Hit the woods on a bluebird day after a big wind-and-rain storm — a woods ramble and one of the best Frontier Partisan Biathlon sessions I’ve ever turned in. Exhilarating... except... it was in the 50s in the middle of January. We’ve had maybe a total of three inches of snow at our elevation. I heard the sounds of Corb … [Read more...] about More From The Trapline — January 2021

By Greg Walker Two Brothers Reinhard Heydrich (left) and his younger brother, Heinz (right), grew up in an educated household. Both were musically gifted with Reinhard becoming an exceptional violinist and Heinz a gifted musician playing the cello. In later years both would be invited to play in a quartet hosted by Admiral Wilhelm Franz … [Read more...] about Two Brothers — Burying the Savior Myth of SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Heinz Heydrich — Part II

By Greg Walker Editor’s note: While World War II was the most titanic state vs. state conventional war in history, it contained within it elements of Frontier Partisan warfare. David Wrolson recently recounted George MacDonald Fraser’s war in Burma, and we’ve explored the massive and brutal partisan campaign in the Wild East 1941-45. The war in … [Read more...] about NAZI! — Burying the Savior Myth of SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Heinz Heydrich — Part I

The final episode of The Frontier Partisan Podcast series on Kit Carson is up. You can access it here or through Spotify or Google Podcasts. In this episode daughter Ceili sat down to interview me on my take on the life and legacy of Kit Carson after having spent months on the trail with the old scout. This was a fun time and might just become a … [Read more...] about Kit Carson Roundup

Clan Cornelius saw off 2020 in our usual style — a feast of crab and our own company. There were fireworks in the neighborhood and not too far off somebody dumped a mag, perhaps symbolically slaying the foul-breathed dragon that the past year turned out to be. We finished strong, with a road trip out to The Painted Hills, which is part of the … [Read more...] about Working The Trapline — January 2021

Episode 4 of The Frontier Partisans Podcast is up. This episode covers Kit Carson’s career as a soldier, from the Mexican-American War and the conquest of California to the Civil War, where he helped confront a Confederate invasion of New Mexico, to his controversial role in the destruction of the Navajo in 1863-64. You can listen here. … [Read more...] about Kit Carson And The Navajo

“Michael tends to find what’s honest — even if it’s the most difficult path.” — Madeleine Stowe (Cora Munro), The Last of the Mohicans As the years have rolled by, Michael Mann’s 1992 film The Last of the Mohicans has been recognized as a masterpiece. Like Apocalypse Now and a few other films that stand up decades on, it was an ordeal to … [Read more...] about Making A Masterpiece

Murder ballads are a staple of the mythos of Frontier Partisans. From Matty Groves to the Dreadful Wind and Rain, and on down to Cocaine Blues and Carrie Brown, love, lust, jealousy and rage — often fueled by alcohol and drugs — are a staple of the themes that form the taproot of American roots music. HP at Hillbilly Highways has scouted up an … [Read more...] about Can’t Kill The Murder Ballad

The third episode of the Kit Carson series is up and you can access it here or on Spotify or Google podcasts. In the 1840s, with his days as a Mountain Man over, Carson put his vast knowledge of the geography of the Far West to work for U.S. Army officer John C. Fremont. Guiding Fremont’s first three expeditions would make Kit the most famous … [Read more...] about Podcast Episode 3 — Kit Carson, Explorer

We had us a pretty decent little gullywhumper Friday night that left the woods soggy and sloppy. Nevertheless, Saturday dawned lovely and  felt a very strong need to be out in it. My intention was to ramble about three miles or so, then retire to The Pit for my kettlebells-and-shooting bit. Perhaps I was inspired by watching the biathlon pursuit in … [Read more...] about The Muddy Morning Ramble